I’m in full nesting mode with only a few weeks left until the Sweet Pea arrives. Major painting, organizing, and cleaning projects are underway and there has hardly been time for anything not related to those 3 tasks. However, there are few random things that I do want to share…
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Pinky got some new sparkly pink shoes that she has been wearing non-stop. She has been coordinating all of her outfits for the past week based on those glittery kicks. So I thought it was only appropriate to share them in our 52 week photo project.
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Recently, I found this snippet of a video from Christmas morning 2010. It’s definitely a keeper that can be brought out again when we hit those dreaded teenage years.
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The Black Widow’s Spy Network is slowly growing. We have agents joining from all across the US, so I created this little map to show the locations of the current network. However, remember that this information is considered top secret, so please keep it hush, hush. *wink*
So remember the nursery mood board I shared back in February? Yeah, we finally got to working on that and the nursery is almost finished. We even have several weeks to spare! However, I’m not going to jump the gun and share all of the dirty details with you just yet. But I do have some before and after photos of the paint job we recently completed in there.
Picking out a paint color was not as easy as I thought it would be. We knew that we wanted a beige-y neutral color, but were overwhelmed with the variety out there. I personally like cooler colors, so we grabbed a couple of paint samples from Restoration Hardware and painted some swatches on the wall to get a better feel for what might look good in the room. And those colors sat there on the wall staring at us day and night for a couple of weeks. We kind of went back and forth, but eventually, we chose their Cappuccino paint color from the Flax Collection (color matched to Olympic’s No-VOC paint at Lowe’s.)
Once everything was painted and dried, we taped the wall in the little alcove where the crib will go so that we could add in the white stripes we wanted. And once we removed our tape, we had perfect stripes for our accent wall. We love how it all turned out! I may be hard to get a true feeling for the paint color from the photos, because it looks different depending on the lighting, but you get the idea. Here are the before and afters.
Of course, it will look a lot better once we have all of the furniture and accessories in place. And hopefully it will end up be a great place for sleeping once little Sweet Pea gets here.
Spring has been pretty sucky and the forecast is calling for several inches of snow tomorrow!! Yuck. However, the last few days of winter here were absolutely beautiful with temperatures in the 60’s and sunny skies. It was great to be able to get out of the house and be outside enjoying the weather.
Last Friday, was a beautiful day, although a little windy. We decided that it would be great to head down to the ocean with the entire fam and get some fresh air. The dogs loved it, Pinky loved it and so did Chris and I.
You may be wondering though why we selected the rockiest beach in town. You see, I had a slightly different agenda than just getting out to enjoy the warm day. Here’s the back story…
Recently, we realized that we need to relocate our fish tank to another location in the house because its current home in the office turned nursery was not going to work out. And because of the relocation, we needed to buy a new fish tank to fit the space better. I had hoped to be able to find something a little bit cooler than your standard, run of the mill rectangle aquarium, (like this on here) but the idea of spending a decent chunk of change on a home for 2 cheap goldfish was not very appealing. So, we opted for ( SURPRISE) a standard, run of the mill aquarium. And while at the pet store picking out our tank, I decided we need new rocks for it. Not those small stones that are a pain in the butt to clean and get stuck in everything, but something bigger, like river rocks. But once again, after checking out the river rock selection, I opted to forgo the $5 price tag for 4 small rocks. That just seemed like a bit too much.
Then a light bulb came on and I had the brilliant idea to just gather some stones from the beach. I put the fam to work collecting the smoothest, darkest stones while we were there. See, Chris even got to carry the pretty pink beach bucket!
And after some scrubbing and lots of boiling, our rocks were fish tank ready. We loaded them in and let the filter run for a few days before introducing the fishes to their new home. So far, so good. They seem to be satisfied and haven’t died yet from any sea related illnesses. (These are hardy goldfish though. You may remember that they survived the super long move from the midwest to the east coast in freezing temperatures!) I even took a short video of them in their new habitat. It isn’t anything too exciting, but you get the picture.
